E-commerce

Global VAT Compliance is your partner when you deal with Indirect Taxes in multiple jurisdictions. Besides experience in the greater European area, we support our clients globally in dealing with VAT/GST and customs aspects of a Global e-commerce marketplace.

The Global VAT and GST compliance market is undergoing several landmark changes:

Cross border e-Commerce scheme in China since 1 April 2016;

Service Tax (subsumed by GST) on e-Services/OIDAR in India from 1 December 2016;

GST Introduction in India on 1 July 2017;

VAT one e-Services in Russia, New Zealand and Australia in 2017;

HMRC measures against non-EU sellers (with a focus on Chinese sellers) selling via marketplaces such as Amazon without being VAT compliant in 2017;

Changes to EU VAT system for B2C sales of digital services in the EU in 2018;

Extension of VAT MOSS single registration to goods sold by non-EU sellers in 2021.

VAT and GST compliance for e-Commerce and goods

e-Commerce sales of goods and services are becoming more and more truly global. The large marketplaces take away the borders and enable sellers to reach customers everywhere. Examples of clients that we aupport are:

European online businesses selling goods into the Asia Pacific with a main focus on the Chinese market reached via local marketplaces (e.g. T-Mall/Alibaba);

VAT and GST compliance for e-Commerce and electronic services

An increasing number of countries is taxing VAT or GST on electronic servoces supplied from abroad to consumerts. As of 2015 the EU applies the Mini One Stop Shop which enables trader to register in one country and report and remit VAT for the entire EU. FTI Global VAT Compliance files EU VAT MOSS returns in various jurisdictions throughout the EU.

Also countries outside the EU have implemented a mechanism to charge VAT, GST or similar transaction taxes on supplies made from other countries to private individuals. Global VAT Compliance can help you comply in all of these jurisdictions.

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